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Automation of finding memory leaks in JavaScript

In the era of Single Page web applications, memory leaks in JS have become a real curse. Usually, this problem is considered from the side of development and describes a way to analyse existing leaks. And what if you need to identify such issues in advance in a huge application?

In this talk, I will talk about how we test our products for memory leaks:

consider the traditional approach with DevTools and three snapshots technique;

take a closer look at autotests that test scripts for leaks using Selenium and the Chrome Debugging Protocol;

analyse memory leak through memory-infra when even DevTools is powerless;